Progress check

Read 1–14 and evaluate your learning in Unit 5. Give yourself a mark from 1 to 3. How can you improve?
1 I can't do this.    2 I have some problems with this.    3 I can do this well.

A  Taking risks

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 1Why do teenagers take more risks than adults or children?

I can understand a text about why teenagers are risk-takers.

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• 2What do the pronouns them and he refer to below?

  Edmund Hillary took part in many expeditions. During one of them, he became the first person to climb Mount Everest.

I can understand pronoun referencing.

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• 3Choose the correct suffixes.

  aI'm frightened/ing of spiders.

  bI think spiders are really frightened/ing.

I can use -ed and -ing adjectives to describe feelings and situations.

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• 4Use a suffix to make nouns from the verbs below.

  a argue  b impress  c enjoy

I can form nouns from verbs using suffixes.

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B  Too young, too old?

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 5Choose the past simple or present perfect.

  1We have climbed / climbed Mount Fuji three times so far.

  2The first time we have gone / went up the mountain was in 2010.

I can use the past simple and the present perfect.

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• 6Complete the sentences with just, yet and already.

• David has ¹... finished crossing the Sahara. He arrived back this morning. He’s ²... crossed the Gobi desert three times. But he hasn’t been to the Kalahari Desert ³... .

I can use the present perfect with just, yet and already to talk about recent events, events that take place sooner than expected, and events that haven’t happened.

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C  Fears and phobias

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 7Give the strong adjective with a similar meaning to each of these adjectives:

  a hotb sillyc funnyd angry

I can use base and strong adjectives to describe things.

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• 8Name three common phobias.

I can understand a radio programme about phobias.

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• 9Give three phrases you can use to describe a photo.

I can describe a photo.

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D  Antarctic adventure

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 10Who reached the South Pole first: Robert Scott or Roald Amundsen?

I can understand a text about a famous explorer.

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• 11Complete the phrasal verbs.

  astart = set ...

  breturn = turn ...

  ccontinue = carry ...

I can use phrasal verbs to describe stages in a journey.

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• 12Complete the sentence with for or since.

• I have been an adventurer ... I was sixteen years old.

I can use for and since to say how long a situation has existed.

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E  A letter: description of a person

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 13Give four words or phrases used to express addition.

I can use addition linkers.

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• 14What is the aim of a topic sentence?

I can use topic sentences when writing a description of a person.

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